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Monday, August 5, 2013

Kinnathappam - Traditional Steamed Sweet Cake

Kinnathappam is a very popular traditional steamed sweet cake made of rice and jaggery.The recipe I got from my mom-in-law. She used to make it in Ramzan season . The ingredients and the taste differ from region to region. Here I use the ground white rice sweetened with jaggery and spiced up with cardamom powder and fennel powder...But in most of my searches I found that cumin powder is used for flavouring this kinnathappam...But with fennel powder also it tastes very delicious .......

This is my second trial..But this time also my 'H' did not admit that the taste is as best as his mom's......

Every wife has a day.right????????

Ingredients :

Raw rice/White Rice : 1 cup

Jaggery : 3 cubes(medium size)

Cardamom Powder : 1 tsp

Egg : 1

Fennel seeds : 3/4 tsp

Shallots : 2-3

Coconut grated : 1/2 cup

Cashew nuts (few) for garnishing

Method :

Soak rice in water overnight .

Melt the jaggery cubes in half cup of water and allow to cool.

Grind the soaked rice with grated coconut,fennel seeds, shallots and the beaten eggs well